Re: pear.php.net site activities?
| From: | Ben Curtis | Date: | Tue, 30 Jan 2001 15:58:02 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: pear.php.net site activities? | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.pear |
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I haven't worked on it before, but I would be interested in doing so.
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 02:03:07PM +0100, Stig S. Bakken wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A lot of people have offered to step in and help out with the web site,
> but I feel that this process is a bit too closed right now. Could
> everyone who's still working on it give a hint to the list?
>
> To re-iterate, these are my ideas for the site:
>
> * Pear.php.net will be an infrastructure site for PEAR, where we (PEAR
> contributors) administer the PEAR package space (add "directories",
> appoint maintainers to each directory and so on) and maintain packages
> (bug reports, releases, user notes).
>
> * Pear.php.net has two interfaces: HTML (for us human types) and XML
> (for programs).
>
> * All PEAR developers get accounts on this site. When you get a PEAR
> account you also get an account in PHP's CVS system with ACLs based on
> your project/package memberships.
>
> * All packages will be registered as separate "projects" (DB is one,
> Chuck's Log stuff is one, PHPDoc is one, and so on), with one or more
> lead developers and members, their own releases and so on.
>
> * Users (of PHP and PEAR) can use the "pear" command-line utility (and
> possibly other methods later) to maintain their packages. As we get
> this infrastructure in place, less PEAR packages will be distributed
> with PHP, and more will be made available for installation from this
> repository.
>
> In addition, we will offer the following:
>
> * A license we encourage (but not require) people to use, basically a
> Zend-less PHP license
>
> * CVS space on cvs.php.net for those who want it
>
> - Stig
>
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